What types of activities do Metro pilots engage in?
A. Metro’s simulated operations include air taxi, site-seeing and charter flights for executive transport, Homeland Security, aerial photography/survey and electronic news gathering. Air taxi flights include passenger transfers from other virtual airlines. Metro supports our alliance partner Virtual Flight Options (VFO), a regional virtual airline, with connecting flights from KTEB, KEWR, KJFK, and KLGA to New York City heliports, and other locations. Coordinated flight scheduling and connections provides an additional level of challenge and realism for pilots of both virtual airlines. Operations are jointly coordinated via a special discuss forum section on the VFO web site. Pilots can schedule a flight connection in advance, and also coordinate inter-airline operations on a VFO operated voice channel. The MetroLife division provides simulated medevac and critical care patient transport in the New York and Los Angeles areas. We are currently in the planning stages for a fire fighting
